MK 3 and MKT were definately a blast.
I was in high school when MK 1 came out. My circle of friends and I were blown away by it. It changed the way fighting game fans looked at the genre, which at the time was dominated by SF2. If I had to choose the one that stuck out the most it would be MK 2. This game took everything that was great about the first one and made it better. In many ways it's not the game that sticks out, but the buzz and the rumor mill surrounding it. The fun was in the mystery of what's going to happen next or in the case of the "error macro", will we get to something we've never seen before?
Those first MK 2 machines really electrified the arcade scene. It was a cool thing to be there at that time.

Well MKII got me started. I was more of a spectator with that game, taking walks to nearby arcade spots and just watching in awe as I saw the new moves and fatalities. I definitely played my fair share, but I also got lost in the whole mystique and atmosphere. I'd usually play a bit, then run out of quarters. After that I would spend hours just watching people play. I was mystified.

Then MK3 came, and it was really "my" game. I learned that one inside out. To this day, I'll still pull finishers off without even consciously remembering the move commands. It's practically a reflex now, which is pretty scary. But I would do mad research on that game; I even made a few bucks walking around Nathan's and selling movelists I had made. Back then there were still a few arcade spots around, and it was funny because I would always run into the same people. We didn't even know each other by names, we were just "MK buddies" and would always end up playing against each other and trading fatality info.

And now that I have cable modem, the dream lives on with Kaillera! I've been playing UMK3 a lot, although for the last couple of weeks my time has been sucked up by MK6 on XBOX Live. However MK3/UMK3/MKT is my all-time favorite, and I am fairly confident I will still be playing that one long after I am done with MK 6, 7, and 10.

I started with MK2 I would say. I played a little bit of MK1, but MK2 was my main game for a while. When MK3 came out I dropped MK2 like a bad habit. MK3 became my game at the local video store West Coast Video, where there was actually a lot of competition. DreemerNJ was amongst the comp there. There was one guy who beat me all the time, but after a whlie he got into Tekken, and then he came back when UMK3 was out for a while and I wrecked him. At this point UMK3 was the be all end all. I don't completely understand why I got into it so much, but I played it all over NJ, wherever I possibly could when I went on vacation or just out with my family, local malls, somewhat distant malls, but yeah UMK3 was the game I really decided was it for me, but MK2 I would say is what I grew up on since I never really liked MK1 all that much.

Matt

I didn't really grow up with one specific game, I played them all extensively at their release and continue to play them all in the present day. MKT is the one I've played the most though.

I grew up on Mortal Kombat II. I remember the days where me and my classmates drew pictures of characters like Scorpion and SUb-Zero and had a webring on how to do well in the game.

I had all the MK games...but the one that I really remember playing a lot was UMK3. I asked for it for christmas from my parents and they got me it...I played that game more than I've played any game ever. I had it for my genesis and I just remember everynight playing it all night. I played it so much I wore the label on the game out...It's almost all white now. No more purple skulls for me =( lol. 2nd would be MK2...wow I loved that game too...but UMK3 was the one that I really played the most.

I would have to say MK2 (SNES) and MK3 (arcade). MK1 I only really played on home consoles, because I was really only in the 4th grade I believe when that was out in arcades. MK2 I only played a very few times in the arcade, but beat the hell out of it on SNES, but when MK3 hit the arcades, I played that machine at least 3 days a week for maybe 2 hours every time. Now I can play them on MAT2 and even MK1 with the Kollectors bonus disk. I'm hoping UMK3 will be included with a potential MAT3 but they need to make it so you can save the 3 hidden characters, no way am I imputting 3 UKK's everytime I want to play them!

I guess it would be the original, MK1. I played it a lot on my Amiga and loved it! After playing MK1 in an arcade on a field trip I was hooked, and as soon as I got the home version I was playin it all the time. Of course whenever the next MK came out I switched to playin that all the time, but I guess I grew up on MK1.

Now, the MK I've played the most - hmmm, either MK3 or MKT.

probably mk1 and 2.. .didnt really get into 3 until umk3 was released.. .i fell off the mk scene wen i started playin' tekken.. .but im startin' to get back into mk again.. .

mortal kombat 2 is where it is at. mk1 i loved, but 2 is just the best mk game ever made. i love DA and D, and mk3 and mkt, but mk2 is just raw and forward, and the fatalities aren't something gay like jax growing huge and stomping you. more like kung lao sawing you right the hell in half. thats more like it.

grew up playing MK2, MK3, UMK3, MKT, and MK4. I never really played much of MK1 except one time when i was 6 and i rented it for SNES and the one for genesis. the first time i played a MK game was MK1 against my cousin for the Genesis. he would always do Scorpion's spear on me and i would ask him how he did it and he never told me. I got my revenge when i rented MK3 for SNES and he came over to play and i beat him almost everytime.

I grew up on Mortal Kombat 1 for SNES. I played the living hell out of that game. The game must have had atleast 2,00 hours worth of game time on it. And to this day, I still can't figure out how I got hold of that game. I sure as hell know my parents didn't buy it for me. And before I got MK, I was hooked on Street Fighter II, and after I started playing MK, I think I sold SFII to some kid down the street.

MK1 and MK2

MK 1 hit me hard when i first saw it i was instantly hooked when i played it at a danddy bear it was just a great game and i had 2 have it....Sadly enough i was never able 2 get it....But then MK2 was realeased it just had a much darker feel to it and it was just great and thats when i found my true calling and that was......To Go Forth and Kick Ass With Reptile

Mk1.
My aunt had given me a snes with MK1. It was just awesome. Despite having blood it was still really great. I guess you could say I was kind of weaned onto Mk starting of with the no blood version of MK1 and then moving onto the bloodbath that was MKtrilogy. After that I played MK4 and Mkda after that. It wasn't till last year I actually got around to Mk2 & 3

My oncle is 8 years older than me so when he bought the Genesis, he also bought Mk2 and my mother didn't want me playing(I was like 4 or 5 years old), but grand father said it was alright, so my mother let me. I played and liked it a lot more than Street Fighter2. I actually got to beat my oncle's friends sometimes. Even though I could do most of the moves I always played as Reptile 'cause he had the only fatality I could do, where he eats the people's head and rubs his stomac(HAHAHAHA! it always makes me laugh).
Later on, I got to play the other games except Special Forces(I saw frinds play and I was so bad I was scared my hands would drop out if I played).

I wouldn't say just one. I've been with MK since day 1 with MK1. Since then I've been MK hooked ever since. Past MK is sort of like past parts of my life in a way that I knew where I was and what I was going in those days. For me their just hasn't been just one MK game that I haven't grown up on. MK1 - MK: Deception

The original Mortal Kombat is what started it off for me. I remember seeing the machine at the local bowling alley/arcade and was just blown away by what I was seeing. I was 14 at the time. After quickly becoming addicted and spending mass amounts of money on the game, I was soon the best Kombatant in town (hey, it was a very small town). I remember playing with Raiden the most.

When MKII came out, the bowling alley would hold Kombat Tournaments with prizes ranging from 500 free tokens for first place, 300 tokens for second place, and 100 tokens for third (the machines were token only, no quarters). There must've been at least 7 or 8 Tournaments over the course of several months. I usually ended up taking first place prize (either using Shang Tsung or Kung Lao), but once or twice I think I came in second. So needless to say, all the prize tokens went right back into the MKII machine! Ahh... those were the days...

MK and MK2 all the way, no more no less, I'm a strict-arsed classic player, I wouldn't even dare touching MK3

3D is to MK what 2D is to Doom.

i agree. though mk3 through deception isn't too bad, i still say mk 1 and 2 are the definition of mortal kombat. mk1 and its rugged, yet smooth feel, and the chill that went down one's spine when seeing the screen darken fo the first time and witnessing what most horror movies wouldn't even do at the time what with all the violence controversy going around those years. then, mk2 rolled out, and people would stand in line all day sometimes not even getting a game in. it was so much more volent and dark, the music was just damn evil, and got your blood pumping anticipating your turn to fight. the fatalitys were even darker, once again upping the ante on violence. especially kung lao's slicer. man thats just morbid. i saw that played out on screen the first time and i was like , holy shit, thats insaine. so then mk3 came out, and you got more bones than anything in the explosions, and fatalities like pumping your head real big, or dropping and arcade on someone, and pulling a full skeleton out of someone. it just got a bit ridiculous. 1 and 2 have gruesome , feasable fatalities in which each suits the charecter in that if they are less magical, their fatality is say something like the torso rip. and if your magical like shang tsung, stealing your soul. hell even jax was good, ripped your arms off, smashed your head, and in mk3, now hes got a ridiculous grow big stomp, yeah right, and t2 arms, once again, yeah right. liu kang being the chosen one, turns into a dragon, thats cool. see, mk3 and on just got too crazy. mk4 went back to good fatalities, but lost a bit since i enjoy 2d better. DA and D, definately good games, but has a whole new feel, and i don't paticularly think of mk when i'm playing it. i know its mk, but its just so different. which is fine, cause i own both , but mk 1 and 2 will forever be the best mk games ever made.

I totaly agree with that statement.

Me too.


I got MK1 on my Sega Genesis, and I played it religiously, I rented MKII every chance I got, and my friend had MK3, I rented UMK3 often. I've always been pretty poor, so I couldn't play in the arcade often. I did play my fair share though of each game. When MKT came out I got it for my N64, and I still play it to this day. I've always been a fanboy, but MKT kind of engraved it in stone.

I grew up on MK 1. It was awesome, our parents were worried; but we
knew we would all turn out ok and we have right? I still think it's an
awesome game to this day. If you think about it, the graphics on MK1
2 and 3 are better than todays games; because instead of using
animation they used pictures and short video. It was sketchy by todays
standards, but if they used the picture and video on a new MK sidescroller
with the technology we have today it would be like controlling an actual
person. They could come out with a new series of games called classics
remixed, where they take old side scrollers and use new technology and
give it new soundtrack, so basiclly if an old game series stopped at #4
and started making 3D games with names instead of numbers, they
could make game #5 and start up where the old game left off with great
picture and video graphics.

MKT is the worst MK ever, specially the PC version.

Well, I guess I cant say that I was there when Mk1 dominated the games, (Im 11 and that doesnt mean Im a little kid who cant enjoy the gore of mortal kombat) But I first played MK3, but then the game I got hooked on was Mk2. I have MK1(SNES)MK2(SNES)mK3(SNES)UMK3(SNES)MKT(PS)MK4(NINTENDO64)MKADVANCE MKTE mK DEADLY ALLIANCE(GBA) MK DEADLY ALLIANCE(PS2) mK DECEPTION(PS2)MAT2. sO YOU CANT DENY iM A TRUE FAN.